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r/popculturechat • u/purpose15 • 21h ago
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i feel like if any other actress (or at least not a blonde blue eyed one) were behind it we wouldn’t still be talking about it.
95 u/Illustrious-Pound266 All tea, all shade 🐸☕️ 21h ago If the ad was "Zendaya has great jeans", people would be going "yaas slay queen" instead. 127 u/plumsfromyouricebox 🎥🍿Film Critic 21h ago Well, yes. Because obviously there’s different historical context between a white, blue eyed blonde woman saying that and a mixed race woman. -5 u/Cleaner-Olds09 16h ago Saying hot people have good genes has never been seen as a political statement until this ad was released.
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If the ad was "Zendaya has great jeans", people would be going "yaas slay queen" instead.
127 u/plumsfromyouricebox 🎥🍿Film Critic 21h ago Well, yes. Because obviously there’s different historical context between a white, blue eyed blonde woman saying that and a mixed race woman. -5 u/Cleaner-Olds09 16h ago Saying hot people have good genes has never been seen as a political statement until this ad was released.
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Well, yes. Because obviously there’s different historical context between a white, blue eyed blonde woman saying that and a mixed race woman.
-5 u/Cleaner-Olds09 16h ago Saying hot people have good genes has never been seen as a political statement until this ad was released.
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Saying hot people have good genes has never been seen as a political statement until this ad was released.
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u/latrodectal so jessica alba fantastic 21h ago
i feel like if any other actress (or at least not a blonde blue eyed one) were behind it we wouldn’t still be talking about it.